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Volatility in 3D Virtual World Industry

Kapp Notes

Microsoft has awarded one of its innovation awards to 3D Virtual Immersive Environment Enterprise provider ProtonMedia. Venuegen has offered to help Second Life Enterprise users move from the SL Enterprise edition to the Venuegen platform for free. And Massively , a blog that provides daily information about MMOs.

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Interesting Developments in 3D Learning and Collaboration Space

Kapp Notes

First, it looks as though Linden Labs, the developers behind Second Life, may be downsizing their corporate efforts ( Second Life Enterprise Edition ). Two sources indicate that Linden may actually be shutting down their Enterprise operations. Some interesting developments in the 3D Learning and Collaboration Space.

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Big Virtual World Event on the Horizon

Kapp Notes

The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education Conference (VWBPE) will feature more than 150 presentations and a keynote address by Mark Kingdon, the CEO of Linden Lab® creators of Second Life® (SL). It enables its Residents to create content, interact with others, launch businesses, collaborate, educate, and more.

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A whole new world

E-Learning Provocateur

Its currency is the Linden Dollar (L$) which avatars can use to buy virtual goods and even virtual property. Linden Dollars are bought with real money and can be exchanged back again. And business isn’t restricted to entrepreneurial individuals. Tags: enterprise 2.0 Second Life also has its own economy.

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Embedding social learning into texts and enterprise software

Jay Cross

Business is social. He ran Michael Milken’s Knowledge Universe Interactive Studio before he became VP, Platform & Technology for Second Life at Linden Labs. One of my aspirations for this year has been to find a way to embed what we know about learning process into social business environments. Learning is social.

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Second Life Gets All Corporate'y.Finally?

Mark Oehlert

What we have are multiple channels ( Virtual World News , Massively ), including official ones from River Runs Red and Linden Lab , bringing us the news that Immersive Workspaces 2.0 has launched. This news has a couple of important points I think.

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Learning, KM vs. SM, Information, Web 2.0, and Second Life

Big Dog, Little Dog

KM will quietly die, and SM will win the soul of Enterprise 2.0, The Impact of Information Technology (IT) on Businesses and their Leaders - Harvard Business School. Andrew McAfee lists 10 principles for the Enterprise 2.0 People are busy. See, Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War.